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Get ready for your visit with this roundup of entertainment recommendations and news items from GateHouse Media's Cape Cod publications.

Get ready for your visit with this roundup of entertainment recommendations and news items from GateHouse Media's Cape Cod publications.

10 best bets for the weekend

1. The Woods Hole Film Festival begins July 28 and continues through Aug. 4. On July 28 the Festival celebrates the DVD launch of the important documentary, “Blue Water, White Death” by the late Peter Gimbel. This history-making film chronicles the real-life expedition of four deep-sea divers and intrepid filmmakers on a quest to capture the first-ever 35mm underwater film footage of the majestic-but-deadly great white shark. Visit woodsholefilmfestival.org.

3. "Beehive," a musical tribute to the girl groups and soloists of the early '60s, opens July 30 at the Cape Playhouse, Route 6A, Dennis and will run through Aug. 11. Tickets are $25 and $45. Call 508-385-3911.

4. Picnic while watching free, family friendly performances of Shakespeare by the Sea at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, July 29 at Aselton Park, Hyannis Harbor. Includes Barnstable Summer Family Theater's production of "Much Ado About Nothing."

6. On Saturday, July 28, and Sunday, July 29, The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Program invites garden lovers to view seven private gardens in Brewster, Chatham and Harwich in self-guided tours. Admission to each private garden is $5, or a packet of six tickets for $25 will be sold at all participating gardens. Open Days are rain or shine, and no reservations are required. Call 1-888-842-2442 or visit www.opendaysprogram.org for more information. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

7. On Saturday, July 28, Eric Jay Dolin, author of "Leviathan The hsistory of Whaling," will sign books at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum at 2 p.m.

8. Enjoy Mashpee Night at the Pops at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 28 on Mashpee Commons. The event is free and features a flyover, concert and fireworks. Bring chairs and blankets. Rain date July 29.

BOURNE - The century-old Jonathan Bourne Historical Center in Bourne village has sprung a new leak. During rainstorms, water is entering the town-owned building through its north face. Historical commission members last week said they would discuss the latest leak with Town Administrator Thomas Guerino, hoping he will agree emergency repairs are in order.

‘Cops in Shop’s watch liquor sales this summer

BOURNE - The Bourne Police Department this summer is participating in a town-wide program that places undercover law enforcement officers in retail stores that sell alcohol. Some storefront windows around town now display “Cops in Shops” posters of a police badge and a warning to under-aged customers that they may be arrested in they try to buy alcohol inside. The Bourne police log has been filled this summer with reports of kids drinking in public places and on town beaches, notably at Sagamore Beach and to a lesser extent at Gray Gables Cove, the bogs in Cataumet and Peaked Cliff in the Sagamore Highlands.

Gas pains: ‘Bullying’ KeySpan gets permit for pipeline

YARMOUTH - They were by no means happy about it, but the Yarmouth selectmen Tuesday gave KeySpan the final go-ahead on the company’s plan to install a 12,000-foot-long high-pressure gas line in the town. “I’m going to support the application, but the bile is building up in my throat,” said Selectman Jerry Sullivan. “You have bullied. You have no corporate conscience. We offered you a much safer route as viewed by most – but not your engineers because it’s cheaper going your way. I hope that none of you are alive to regret your move in bullying these three towns.” When the Cape Cod Commission rejected the plan to install the 13-mile pipeline beneath eight roads in Yarmouth, Dennis and Harwich, KeySpan went to the state’s Energy Facilities Siting Board, which overruled the commission’s ruling.

Should Commercial Street be repaved?

PROVINCETOWN - The board of selectmen approved spending almost $15,000 for a study to determine the cost and a timeline to repave Commercial Street. Townspeople have long complained that a complete repaving is not only overdue, but that the town promised to do it. As part of the initial sewer system plan, about $2 million was set aside to repave Commercial Street. However, the $2 million eventually went to cover other costs.

$100,000 media campaign set for fiscal 2008

PROVINCETOWN – The town’s fiscal 2008 media plan invests more in Internet advertising and outreach and continues to focus on niche marketing. Administrative tourism director Bill Schneider presented the plan recently to the visitor services board, saying that Internet marketing, in conjunction with a print advertising plan, would be the best way to promote the town. The plan proposes to spend more than $100,000 promoting the town in more than 15 publications and on numerous Web sites.

Plovers force closure of beach lot

TRURO - Cape Cod National Seashore’s parking lot at Head of the Meadow Beach is closed due to a piping plover nest hatching on the edge of the lot. The town-managed Head of the Meadow parking lot is not affected by this nest hatching and remains open.